Creating a dummy from a two-category variable
Given is a basetable
with one predictive variable "gender". Make sure that "gender" can be used as a predictive variable in a logistic regression model by creating dummy variables for it.
Este exercício faz parte do curso
Intermediate Predictive Analytics in Python
Instruções do exercício
- Create a pandas dataframe
dummies_gender
that has the dummy variables for "gender". Make sure to avoid multicollinearity. - Add these dummies to the original
basetable
. - Remove the original variable "gender" from the
basetable
.
Exercício interativo prático
Experimente este exercício completando este código de exemplo.
# Create the dummy variable
dummies_gender = pd.____(____["____"], drop_first=____)
# Add the dummy variable to the basetable
basetable = pd.concat([____, ____], axis=1)
# Delete the original variable from the basetable
del basetable["____"]
print(basetable.head())